US PRESIDENT BUSH MEETS WITH ABDUL AZIZ AL-HAKIM
U.S. President George W. Bush (R) meets with the Leader for the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq Abdul Aziz al-Hakim in the Oval Office of The White House, in Washington on December 12, 2006. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
UPI Related News
LONDON, June 24 (UPI) -- British legislators Tuesday backed a court decision to remove the Iraqi dissident group People's Mujahedin of Iran from their list of terrorist organizations.
BAGHDAD, June 21 (UPI) -- A Shiite lawmaker with the United Iraqi Alliance said Friday Baghdad is in negotiations with U.S. officials over the fate of an Iranian opposition group.
WASHINGTON, June 21 (UPI) -- Despite careful rhetoric from the revered Iraqi Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani, his opposition to U.S. interests in Iraq is apparent, an analyst says.
NAJAF, Iraq, June 5 (UPI) -- Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Thursday set a series of conditions necessary for Iraq to consider any strategic arrangement with the United States.
BAGHDAD, June 2 (UPI) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met Shiite leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim to discuss a U.S. security deal with Iraq amid rising tensions over the agreement.
BAGHDAD, May 30 (UPI) -- Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr Friday called for protests in the streets of Baghdad to voice opposition to a pending strategic agreement with the United States.
BAGHDAD, May 29 (UPI) -- An Iraqi military unit's defacement of a Moqtada Sadr poster in a town southeast of Baghdad threatens to ignite conflict between rival Shiite groups.
BAGHDAD, May 27 (UPI) -- A lawmaker with the Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition bloc said Tuesday Sadrist criticisms against Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki were political maneuvering.
BAGHDAD, May 15 (UPI) -- The Sadrist Movement emerged as an influential force in the post-Saddam era in Iraq, but its potency may be in decline, analysts say.
BAGHDAD, May 9 (UPI) -- The decision by the Iraqi government to launch an investigation into Iranian weapons in the country raises questions about political motives.